From the dawn of history to the end of time, Damon McLaughlin’s ecstatic jeremiads and coruscating haiku-like lyrics trace the trajectory of civilization across cosmic Big Bang, Pangean pea soup, eons-long bebop to the extravagant hopes and daily despair of our own American good-night. “I don’t know if this is/our first sun dance or our last,” the poet warns, “but the drums are coming./They’re coming, and a new mutilation will begin.” These are urgent poems for our darkly emergent times. --L. S. Asekoff
“What rushed into us changed us,” “What illuminates disintegrates simultaneously”: These are the themes continually tested in Damon McLaughlin’s book, in poems sung with the slow cadences of the blues, set in the natural world & infused with metaphors so sensual & evocative they create their own metaphysics. -- Steve Orlen, author: The Elephant's Child: Selected Poems 1978-2005
Music from Red Star Rebellion
Damon McLaughlin - Vocals, Guitar. Corey Ellison - Guitar. Aaron Ekstrom - Bass
Damon McLaughlin - Vocals, Guitar. Corey Ellison - Guitar. Aaron Ekstrom - Bass
RSR Live From brewd 1.28.12
(2012)
(2012)
EP
(2009)
(2009)
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